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A volcano with accounts of eruption documented within 10,000years (2 words)
Active volcano
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A big body of land on the globe
Continent
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A vibration of earth due to the rapid release of energy
Earthquake
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The location on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
Epicenter
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The exact site of the origin of an earthquake, below the epicenter
Focus
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The liquid rock below the earth's surface
Magma
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A land mass that projects well above its surroundings, higher than a hill
Mountain
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A chain of mountains (2 words)
Mountain range
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Earthquake waves (2 words)
Seismic wave
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The first type of seismic wave to be recorded in a seismic station, these compression waves are the fastest and travel through solids, liquids, and gases (2 words)
Primary wave
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The second type of earthquake wave to be recorded in a seismic station
Secondary wave
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The graphical record of an earthquake
Seismogram
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A measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of an earthquake
Seismograph
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A japanese term for "big wave in the port" generated during undersea quakes
Tsunami
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A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas is being or have been erupted from the earth's crust
Volcano
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motion causes them to collide
Plate
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deformation of the plate
Tectonic
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collection of geophysical data for special studies
Geophysical surveys
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the earth's crust is divided into?
12 major plates
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made of rigid lithosphere
Plates
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what are the three layers of earth
Core, Mantle, Crust
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it is constant but very slow motion these are not the same everywhere
Lithosphere
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it is a form of an magma
Asthenosphere
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lithospheres are move around by underlying
Hot mantle
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what are the three types of plate boundary
Divergent, Convergent, Transform
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when two plates come together, it is a?
Convergent
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what are the three styles of convergent?
Continent - Oceanic crust collision, Continent - Continent collision, Ocean - Ocean collision
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these two tectonic plates move away to each other
Divergent
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they move side past each other
Transform
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it is an intensely hot area in the mantle below Earth's crust
Hot spot volcanism